Ecosystem services (ES) are indispensable contributors to rural population wellbeing (RPWB). Understanding the relationship between ES and RPWB is important to human welfare and conserving ecosystem services. Ecologically-vulnerable areas are widely distributed in China and are concentrated with impoverished people. This study explored the relations of ES and RPWB in an ecologically-fragile are...

investments in the extension of health insurance coverage, the strengthening of public health services, as well as primary care and better hospitals, highlights the emerging role of healthcare as part of china’s new growth regime, based on an expansion of services, and redistributive policies. such investments, apart from their central role in terms of relief for low-income people, serve to reb...

IMPORTANCE Despite the importance of identifying and reducing wasteful health care use, few direct measures of overuse have been developed. Direct measures are appealing because they identify specific services to limit and can characterize low-value care even among the most efficient providers. OBJECTIVES To develop claims-based measures of low-value services, examine service use (and associa...

OBJECTIVES to describe variation in utilisation of carotid endarterectomy (CEA) within two English health regions and explore relationships between use, need and proximity to services. DESIGN consecutive case series of operations. Comparison at a population level with district stroke mortality, hospital admissions and material deprivation. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES standardised utilisation rate...

abstract background: to get intersectoral collaborations is one of the strategies considered for the goal of health for all by the year 2000 which has been emphasized in the 21th century again. if the members of local organizations are more satisfied, they will collaborate in the improvement of health programs more. this study was performed to assess the satisfaction rate of the members of loca...

The purpose of this study is to cluster all of the oral and dental health centers that have a wide range of service and rate (119 in 2009, 117 in 2010) in 7 regions of Turkey apart from the dental hospitals under the Ministry of Health according to the services they offer and determine the service groups which affect the clustering. The second aim which the study has focused on is to determine ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The National Stroke Foundation of Australia has run 12 public awareness campaigns since 2004. Campaign exposure and funding has varied annually and regionally during this time. The aim of this study was to measure the effect of campaigns on calls to ambulance for stroke across Australia in exposed regions (paid or pro bono advertising). METHODS All ambulance services in...

Background: Nowadays, medical environment is becoming increasingly competitive in order to meet the patients' expectations and demands. Despite their efforts to provide the best services, nurses often receive complaints from people who are dissatisfied with the services they receive. There are reports claiming nurses as violent and unethical in their duties. This leads to constant stress among ...